Peacock

The ticket back to the county seat is at [-]:[-] in the morning, which is really the first trip in the morning.

Lin Cong originally said that if he drove us back, he would not be punished by the bumps of the long-distance bus, but the car keys were in the hands of his wife who was out of town for sales. Now all he can do is put on flip flops and rely on a pair of hair The legs sent us back to the hotel.

Their twin towers sandwiched me in the middle, and those slightly obscure conversations were floating around above my head.

Lin Cong told me gossip just like Tang Ling's family, probably trying to wash away the frustration I couldn't hide after hearing the old things.

He said that when Tangling was in junior high school, he went to the billiard hall with him. Some of them stayed there for a long time and only dared to pretend to be characters in such a small place, so they would come here specially to show off the face. Man gets poked in the ass.

Tang Ling explained blankly that he was the one who slapped me first.

Lin Cong pulled my sleeve in disgust and pointed at Tang Ling, saying, look, he had this expression when he was a child, so why not be slapped.

I broke out in a cold sweat, and told Tang Ling that you showed your talent at such a young age.

Lin Cong said that Tang Ling has no talent, he has never been good at fighting, and I can't beat him.

I say ass poking talent.

After a moment of silence, Lin Cong said that it was incomparable.

When he walked downstairs to the hotel, Lin Cong turned around and walked away emotionally, then turned back and hugged Xia Tangling.I heard him say to Tang Ling, brother, life will be fine in the future.

Tang Ling patted him nonchalantly, I think what he said was true, regardless of whether his testimony was biased by survivors or not.

Then Lin Cong walked away with a satisfied smile, maybe only I can see that Tangling may not care whether his life will get better in the future, just like he used to not care how miserable his life will be, "looking forward" to this time Things seemed vague to him like a dream that he couldn't remember the details of.

On the night I left Chaozhou, I bought ten lottery tickets without telling Tangling, and then hid them in the inner layer of Tangling's backpack.This is the first time I have entered the gambling business, and I thought to myself that this should give the newborn gamblers some face, who would want to continue to throw money into it foolishly if they can't enjoy the sweetness in the first place.

On this night, which was destined to be short of sleep, Tang Ling did not fall asleep again, sitting in front of the computer alone to process the images.

I didn't fall asleep either, but I was afraid that Tang Ling would see something from my blinking eyes, so I just pulled up the quilt and stared blankly by myself.

In the middle of the trip, I felt a little bored. When I lifted the quilt, I caught a glimpse of the fluorescent lights and subconsciously went to pull the bedside table, but I forgot that this is not Baima, and there will be no medicine in the bedside table in the hotel.

And the clock on the wall also tells me that I don't have to fight with sleep anymore.

I lay on the bed with my eyes open for a while, put the clothes he had changed on my face, and couldn't help calling his name in a low voice and continuously, repeating it over and over again, like a rag doll with wrong stitches .

Tang Ling walked over slowly, pulled the clothes off at once, and asked if I was chanting scriptures, I laughed and didn't answer.

"Got to go?"

Tang Ling responded.

I didn't look at him, and said again: "Actually, I thought you would leave me here and go back alone. But I don't think I can stop you, so I pretended to be asleep very considerately last night. Tang Ling, I am very sorry Be good."

"It's more convenient to throw it directly in Guangzhou."

Of course, I could only thank Dade for saying that you were right, and then I roared nervously, and then suddenly sat up from the bed.

It was not even five o'clock when we arrived at the bus station, and the breakfast car had already grabbed the unique chassis.

Perhaps it was because there were few young people in the county, and it was not a holiday, only half of the cars were empty, most of them were middle-aged and elderly people.

According to Tang Ling, the road back home has not changed much after a few years, and it seems that they don't bother to devote more energy to the construction of this area.I can't see why, but I just think it's not as spacious as Baima's road.

I passed through several towns on the way, and every time I thought I had arrived at my destination, I didn’t have the confidence to exclaim later, until I drove past an abandoned gas station, the county town where Tangling lived showed a corner appearance.

I don't know which showy plan was adopted, but there is actually a small square at the entrance, and the intermittent fountain water curtain is very decadent, completely unable to stop the farce in the center of the square.

When I got out of the car and passed by, I heard that there seemed to be some kind of health medicine being promoted there, saying that taking it would prevent osteoporosis.The thin woman surrounded by the old lady danced and explained the efficacy, and interrupted a section of explosive singing and dancing from time to time. The advertising ribbon on her body floated up and down with the movement, and she worked extremely hard.

I couldn't help but said to Tang Ling: "She said that the old lady can dance like this after taking the medicine. Isn't that a lie? She is only in her teens and 20s, so of course she doesn't have osteoporosis."

Tang Ling pointed out: "Those who will buy it are not for the curative effect, do you understand the placebo?"

I don't think I understand, isn't it a waste of money?

The truck ran over the yellow mud road, Tangling heard the sound and dragged me to the curb of the rocky street, but the wet muddy water still splashed on our pants.

I let out a low cry of surprise, but Tang Ling just looked at it, without any unnecessary reaction.

Unexpected and within reason, Tangling didn't seem to have any mood swings since she stepped into this county, she hurried on her way in silence, got along with each other naturally, without even the slightest nostalgia, nostalgia, or even disgust, as if she just wanted to come back Complete a mission.

He said that he had no sense of belonging when he was a child. When he saw that I was about to ask questions in doubt, he said that it was not because of the county itself, and that it was the same everywhere.

When he said it, I realized that maybe I should also belong to this kind of cold-blooded animal, so the life I miss should not be Baima, but the days of living peacefully with him, without worrying about breaking up tomorrow.

Through a winding shortcut, Tang Ling took me back to his former home. I looked and looked at the dark windows upstairs, and I really had no chance to run into that lunatic who sang Nirvana.

As soon as the door is opened, dust is everywhere, and the airtight space is surrounded by a damp musty smell. It has been untouched for a long time, and it looks a bit like an old house that only appears in zombie movies.

I followed him and started to push open every window in the house. I saw one of them was still pasted with a yellow old advertisement leaflet saying "Beijing's bid for the Olympics was successful".

When we got to the bedroom, he stopped in front of the window for a rare moment, and I squeezed from between his arms to the front, and followed me to look out, my eyes were only filled with the rust-red roof.

Tang Ling said briskly, "My way to school."

I grabbed the window sill and leaned out, only to find a narrow road between the shops. At the end of the road seemed to be a school with red flags fluttering.

But the road was too narrow, and I couldn't help but said, "Wouldn't it be impossible to walk if more people do grocery shopping in the morning? It's too crowded."

"I'm going up."

"Above?" I thought for a long time before I came to a conclusion, "Couldn't it be from the roof!"

With the default, I can only sigh: "I'm not afraid of falling!"

Tang Ling tugged at my arm which was still wrapped in dressing: "You are neither afraid nor afraid."

I blushed and couldn't say much.

I visited Tangling's old room again, and lay down on the single bed without being too dirty. I sniffed the pillow like a dog, thinking I could find the green smell of a teenage little Tangling , but just coughed up his lungs from being choked by the dust.

I shook my legs in boredom, and I sexually asked him if he had ejaculated on this bed. I said that in the summer when I was forced to watch the film, I had nocturnal emissions every day like a premature ejaculation ghost. Get up and rub your panties.

Unexpectedly, I was really sleepy while lying down. Before I could completely close my eyes, Tangling's coat was placed on my body.

I sat up nervously and hurriedly said, "Why?"

"Sleep for a while, I'll take you to dinner at noon."

I hurriedly grabbed his cuff: "Where are you going, didn't you promise me to follow you?"

For my nervous surprise, Tang Ling didn't directly refuse with stern words, but just turned around, and I knew he had compromised again.

I followed him up the stairs to the top floor of this one-story house. Every household seems to be unwilling to let go of even one-third of an acre here. fruits and vegetables.

Looking at the county from the roof, the impact of this county will be much stronger. Not far away, there is a towering real estate called St. Maurice that should appear in Guangzhou. However, the hills to the north of it are still scattered with short yellow mud In the house, cooking smoke curled up into the sky.

Although the county town is well-built, it is still surrounded by many scattered villages. I heard from Lin Cong that Tang Ling's family also moved to the county town from a village in the back, relying on his mother to sell clothes.

I don't know what Tang Ling wanted to do when he came up, I just saw him looking for things in the debris pile alone, as if he wanted to find a tool similar to a shovel, but since they moved away, the things that can be used have long been It was taken by the neighbors, and all that was left was such things as heavy water tanks and broken fishing nets.

The soil was still wet and soft after the rain, so Tang Ling didn't insist on relying on tools anymore, but walked to a rectangular flowerbed, where weeds had already grown, surrounding the kumquat trees in the middle, and robbed them of all the nutrients.

So Tang Ling began to pull up the weeds silently, and he didn't care if his palm was cut by the sharp leaf. He buried his head and continued to clean up, and then dug up the soil underneath, as if he was looking for something.

I was really frightened, so I hurried to pull him, and hugged his hand tightly in my arms.

"What are you doing?!" I asked, "Will it hurt?"

"Don't get in the way."

Tang Ling pulled out her hand as she said that, I didn't dare to disobey him anymore, but he stopped me from helping, so I could only watch him turn over half of the soil in the entire flower garden.

After an unknown amount of time, he found a silver necklace from inside. The pendant was in the shape of a peacock's tail feather. It was inlaid with green gemstones and diamonds, making it hard to hide its brilliance.

Tangling held the chain and stood on the spot panting lightly. He shook off the dirt on it, and suddenly asked me if it looked good.

But I cared more about his hands than looking at the chain, so I just said casually, "It looks good."

He hung the chain in front of his eyes, and looked at it carefully as if observing a new creature, "It's quite beautiful, no wonder she likes it so much."

I reacted: "Is it mother's?"

"Then why is it here?"

"I hid it when I was six years old." Tang Ling paused and said, "After my father passed away, her first love in junior high school made money in business and came back to her and gave her this to send me back to my grandmother's house." , and then go back to Zhejiang with him."

"She was probably very happy. She didn't marry my dad voluntarily. At that time, I saw that she would take out this necklace from the drawer every morning and evening, and then take it off immediately after looking in the mirror for a few minutes. It will be picked faster after passing by."

Tangling suddenly laughed erratically: "Yu Zhenzhen, I can't remember why I hid this necklace when I was a child."

"Afraid that your mother will leave you behind?"

"Maybe." Tang Ling stared at the necklace in a daze, "After she couldn't find the necklace, she cried and said to that person on the phone that maybe it was God's will, and then she cooked a lot of dishes that night, So many that I thought there were guests. I still remember her saying that a new beginning is coming."

Tang Ling stared sideways at me: "Sometimes I think, if I don't hide the necklace in a huff, the ending will be different."

"No." I said, "It doesn't matter whether you hide or not, Auntie won't leave you alone."

I didn't dare to look directly into Tang Ling's eyes anymore, I just lowered my eyes and rinsed his hands with mineral water, gently rubbing those tiny scratches with my fingertips.

But in the end it was I who cried so much that I fell on Tang Ling's legs and didn't know what to say.Tang Ling pushed my chin with her knee, and I wiped my face and looked up to find that he was spreading his hands towards me, with a few thin kumquats stacked in his palms.

He told me not to cry, smell it, although I obediently moved my face towards it, but my nose was blocked from crying and I couldn't smell it, so I could only take the kumquats and put them into the hood.

Still with a bit of solemnity, Tang Ling went downstairs to take out the long, fluffy white box after thoroughly cleaning her hands and chain.

He opened the box and put the necklace in, as if in this way he could return to his mother the right to pursue perfect love and obtain a new life.

The bungalows are surrounded by the "moat" of the county seat. After the heavy rain, the water level has become very high, showing signs of pouring. The water-green slow flow is sparkling in the midday sun, wild flowers are growing on the river bank, and the wind is gentle Dragging, like singing a nameless dirge.

I don’t know the source when I go up, and I don’t know the end when I go down. We just came to such an ordinary river bank.

Tang Ling reached out to explore the river water, stared at the white box for a long time, and finally sank it into the river.

I grabbed Tang Ling's hand, turned to look at him, and suggested with a sense of ceremony: "Tang Ling, you can talk to your mother and give her a blessing."

Tang Ling lowered her eyes, and I didn't hear him say until the white box was gone, that I won't be your burden in the next life.